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HAZELTON - Motorists or hitchhikers travelling the northern highways could register to have their safe passage monitored by “eyes in the sky” if a Gitxsan-run satellite service can get government support to expand its coverage. BC SafetyLink is a new Gitxsan Development Corporation business which provides live safety monitoring from its Hazelton office. Companies pay the service to monitor their workers, who can use their smartphones or GPS devices to check in at regular intervals. If a worker fails to check in,
the BC SafetyLink call centre follows a protocol of contacting delegated supervisors who can decide how to proceed. The GDC wants to open up the service to the public so they can check in while travelling on Highway 16, which is also known as the Highway of Tears because of the high number of women who have disappeared or been murdered along it. GDC president Rick Connors said the BC SafetyLink system does not need cellphone reception, making it easier for people to call for help in dead zones along the highway. He said people who were driving alone or hitchhiking could register with the call centre to follow up with a family mem-
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